How to make screen reader not to read out the span tag inside the paragraph tag?

Consider the following element:
<p>Hello <span class='nowrap'>Samuel L. Chang</span></p>
The .nowrap class has css styles whitespace nowrap
When using screen reader, the screen reader will read out the span tag, character by character
Based on what I have found, there's no role='text'
How do I make screen readers ignore the node and read it as plain text?

Thx!